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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics Create a Submit Button

Posted by Kaleb Ross
Kaleb Ross
4,868 Points

not really understanding what they are asking?

thought they wanted this <button>"Submit Comment"</button> but that was rejected not sure what they want.

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>HTML Forms</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form action="index.html" method="post">
      <input type="text" id="name" name="user_name">
      <textarea id="comment" name="user_comment"><textarea>
        <button type="submit">"Submit Comment"></button>

  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

Scott Wyngarden
PLUS
Scott Wyngarden
Courses Plus Student 16,700 Points
Scott Wyngarden
Scott Wyngarden
Courses Plus Student 16,700 Points

Hi Kaleb,

It looks like somewhere along the way changed the closing </textarea> to no longer include the / And you also have an extra > in the line with the button tags, and you don't need to put Submit Comment in quotes. The final thing should look like:

      <input type="text" id="name" name="user_name">
      <textarea id="comment" name="user_comment"></textarea>
      <button type="submit">Submit Comment</button>

where you currently have:

      <input type="text" id="name" name="user_name">
      <textarea id="comment" name="user_comment"><textarea>
      <button type="submit">"Submit Comment"></button>
brevans26
brevans26
15,198 Points
brevans26
brevans26
15,198 Points

Apparently you did not close the tag "form"

Try this:

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>HTML Forms</title> </head> <body> <form action="index.html" method="post"></form> <input type="text" id="name" name="user_name"> <textarea id="comment" name="user_comment"></textarea> <button type="submit">"Submit Comment"</button> </body> </html>